Cigarette card with a colour image of a man with a brass pot full of cucumbers balanced on his head, entitled 'Cowcumbers to Pickle.' Text on reverse reads: 'The seller of cucumbers seems to have varied his cries somewhat. In the days of Elizabeth he cried “Buy any cocumber,” and sixty years later he cried “I ha’ ripe cowcumber, ripe cowcumber.” An 18th century engraving of a woman selling cumcumbers bears the title, “Delicate cowcumbers to pickle,” and a woodcut of a rather late date invites us to “Buy green and large cucumbers, green and large cucumbers, twelve a penny.”' Number 13 in a set of 25 cigarette cards entitled 'Cries of London'. Issued by John Player & Sons, a branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd.
